Maps and Legends

''Maps and Legends'' is a love song in 16 parts - a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around ''serious'' literature in favour of a wide-ranging affection. His own fiction, meanwhile, is explored from the perspective of personal history: post-collegiate desperation sparks his debut, ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh''; procrastination and doubt reveal the way toward ''Wonder Boys''; a love of comics and a basement golem combine to create the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay''; and an enigmatic Yiddish phrasebook unfurls into ''The Yiddish Policemen''s Union''.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Chabon, Chabon Michael
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.03.2010
• EAN: 9780007289875
• ISBN: 978-0-00-728987-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays